American college soccer season
2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season Number of teams 206 TV partner/s ESPNU , BTN , P12N , ACCN Hermann Trophy Jordan Morris (Stanford )Top goalscorer Gordon Wild (USC Upstate ) (16 goals)Biggest home win VMI 0–11 UNC Greensboro (October 27) Biggest away win USC Upstate 7–0 Presbyterian (September 5) UNC Greensboro 7–0 VMI (October 10) Highest scoring VMI 0–11 UNC Greensboro (October 27) Longest winning run 15 gamesCreighton (August 28 – October 28) Longest unbeaten run 18 gamesDenver (August 29 – November 22) Longest winless run 35 gamesVMI (since 9/12/2014) Longest losing run 32 games VMI (since 9/23/14) Highest attendance Home field –14,919Cal Poly @ UC Santa Barbara (October 24 )Neutral field –9,316Army vs Navy @ Chester, PA(November 3) Lowest attendance Home field –Several reported as 0– Probably incorrect, but official Neutral field –22Missouri State v. Loyola Marymount @ New Mexico (September 18) Duration November 19 – December 13, 2015 Most conference bids ACC–7 bids American Athletic, Big Ten & Conference USA–4 bids Date December 13, 2015 Site Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas Champions Stanford Runners-up Clemson
The 2015 NCAA Division I men's soccer season was the 57th season of NCAA championship men's college soccer . The regular season began on August 28 and continues into November 2015. The season culminated with the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship in December 2015. There were 206 teams in men's Division I competition.[ 1] The defending champions were Virginia who defeated UCLA 0–0 (4–2 PKs) to win its seventh NCAA soccer title.[ 2] The season concluded with Stanford defeating Clemson 4–0 to win its first championship.
Program Outgoing coach Manner of departure Date of vacancy Incoming coach Date of appointment Campbell Steve Armas Hired as an assistant at Wake Forest May 7, 2015 Dustin Fonder June 9, 2015 [ 3] Cal Poly Phil Ruskin Interim, not retained Was not announced Steve Sampson December 4, 2014[ 4] Denver Bobby Muuss Head coach at Wake Forest January 8, 2015 Jamie Franks January 30, 2015[ 5] Drake Sean Holmes Fired August 28, 2015 Gareth Smith (Interim) August 28, 2015 [ 6] Eastern Illinois Mark Hansen Not retained Was not announced Kiki Lara March 10, 2015[ 7] Evansville Mike Jacobs Resigned November 2014 Marshall Ray December 8, 2014[ 8] Grand Canyon Petar Draksin Relieved of duties December 11, 2014 Schellas Hyndman January 13, 2015[ 9] Green Bay Dan Popik Resigned November 2014 Jeremy Bonomo March 8, 2015[ 10] High Point Dustin Fonder Head coach at Campbell June 9, 2015 EJ O'Keeffe July 22, 2015 [ 11] James Madison Dr. Tom Martin Retired September 22, 2014 Tom Foley January 8, 2015[ 12] UMass Devin O'Neill Interim not retained/to Western New England March 5, 2015 Fran O'Leary February 11, 2015 [ 13] UNC Asheville Matt Kern Contract not renewed November 20, 2014 Mathes Mennell February 11, 2015[ 14] St. Bonaventure Mel Mahler Resigned November 20, 2014 Kwame Oduro December 18, 2015[ 15] SIU Edwardsville David Korn & Brian Jones Interim Co-head to Associate head coach Interim Co-head to Assistant, Saint Louis FC December 5, 2014 Mario Sanchez January 27, 2015[ 16] SMU Tim McClements Contract not renewed January 9, 2015 Kevin Hudson January 9, 2015 [ 17] VMI Richie Rose Resigned November 19, 2015 Jon Freeman January 7, 2015[ 18] Wake Forest Jay Vidovich Head coach for the Portland Timbers 2 December 18, 2014 Bobby Muuss January 8, 2015[ 19] Yale Brian Tompkins Moved to administration August 2014 Kylie Stannard December 29, 2014[ 20]
Discontinued programs [ edit ] None.
Conference realignment [ edit ] NJIT , previously the only Division I basketball independent , played the 2014 season as a single-sport member of the Sun Belt Conference . Although NJIT replaced Northern Kentucky in the Atlantic Sun Conference (A-Sun) in July 2015, the men's soccer team remained in the Sun Belt for the 2015 season due to contractual commitments to that league. NJIT men's soccer will join the A-Sun in 2016.[ 21]
Additionally, the 2015 season was the last for Coastal Carolina in the Big South Conference . The Chanticleers will join the Sun Belt Conference on July 1, 2016, in all sports except football, with that team joining the conference a year later. The arrival of Coastal Carolina will maintain the Sun Belt at six men's soccer members, preserving the league's automatic NCAA tournament berth.[ 22]
Several American soccer outlets posted their own preseason top 25 rankings of what were believed to be the strongest men's collegiate soccer teams entering 2015.
NSCAA [ 23] Rank Team 1 UCLA 2 Virginia 3 Georgetown 4 Notre Dame 5 North Carolina 6 Creighton 7 Providence 8 Stanford 9 Michigan State 10 Washington 11 Clemson 12 UMBC 13 Maryland 14 Indiana 15 Syracuse 16 California 17 Charlotte 18 Louisville 19 Xavier 20 UC Irvine 21 Coastal Carolina 22 Saint Louis 23 Penn State 24 Old Dominion 25 Akron
College Soccer News [ 24] Rank Team 1 UCLA 2 Virginia 3 Georgetown 4 Creighton 5 Stanford 6 Providence 7 Notre Dame 8 Washington 9 Maryland 10 North Carolina 11 Clemson 12 Indiana 13 Michigan State 14 Charlotte 15 Louisville 16 California 17 UC Irvine 18 Xavier 19 Syracuse 20 UMBC 21 Coastal Carolina 22 Old Dominion 23 Saint Louis 24 Akron 25 Penn State
Soccer America [ 25] Rank Team 1 UCLA 2 Virginia 3 Georgetown 4 Stanford 5 Creighton 6 Maryland 7 Providence 8 Clemson 9 North Carolina 10 Notre Dame 11 Louisville 12 Washington 13 Indiana 14 California 15 Charlotte 16 Syracuse 17 UC Santa Barbara 18 UC Irvine 19 Akron 20 Coastal Carolina 21 UConn 22 Xavier 23 Penn State 24 Delaware 25 Old Dominion
Top Drawer Soccer [ 26] Rank Team 1 Virginia 2 UCLA 3 Georgetown 4 Stanford 5 Creighton 6 North Carolina 7 Notre Dame 8 Michigan State 9 California 10 Louisville 11 UC Irvine 12 Maryland 13 Clemson 14 Kentucky 15 Penn State 16 Xavier 17 Charlotte 18 Indiana 19 Saint Louis 20 Washington 21 Monmouth 22 Coastal Carolina 23 Syracuse 24 Providence 25 UMBC
Weekly NSCAA #1 ranked team[ 27] Date Team Date Team Date Team Date Team August 3 (preseason) UCLA None until after season starts September 1 UCLA September 8 Creighton September 15 Creighton September 22 Creighton September 29 Creighton October 6 Creighton October 13 Creighton October 20 Creighton October 27 Creighton November 3 Wake Forest November 10 Wake Forest November 17 Wake Forest None until after tournament December 15 Stanford
2015 American Athletic Conference men's soccer standings Conf Overall Team W L T W L T No. 11 SMU + 7 – 0 – 1 15 – 3 – 4 No. 15 South Florida + 5 – 1 – 2 11 – 6 – 3 Connecticut + 3 – 3 – 2 10 – 6 – 6 Tulsa ‡ 3 – 3 – 2 8 – 6 – 7 UCF 3 – 4 – 1 7 – 8 – 2 Temple 2 – 6 – 0 10 – 7 – 2 Cincinnati 1 – 4 – 3 7 – 9 – 3 Memphis 1 – 4 – 3 3 – 10 – 4 As of November 29, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA
2015 Ivy League men's soccer standings Conf Overall Team W L T W L T Dartmouth ‡ 6 – 1 – 0 12 – 6 – 1 Harvard 5 – 2 – 0 9 – 6 – 2 Brown 4 – 1 – 2 10 – 5 – 2 Columbia 4 – 3 – 0 10 – 5 – 1 Princeton 3 – 3 – 1 10 – 5 – 2 Cornell 2 – 5 – 0 4 – 13 – 0 Penn 1 – 5 – 1 3 – 11 – 2 Yale 0 – 5 – 2 1 – 14 – 2 As of November 22, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA
2015 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference men's soccer standings Conf Overall Team W L T W L T Monmouth 7 – 0 – 3 13 – 4 – 4 Rider ‡ 6 – 3 – 1 14 – 6 – 1 Iona 5 – 3 – 2 10 – 7 – 3 Marist 5 – 3 – 2 7 – 9 – 2 Fairfield 5 – 3 – 2 6 – 6 – 6 Siena 5 – 4 – 1 8 – 10 – 3 Canisius 5 – 5 – 0 8 – 9 – 1 Saint Peter's 4 – 5 – 1 7 – 9 – 2 Manhattan 3 – 6 – 1 4 – 11 – 2 Quinnipiac 1 – 5 – 4 2 – 11 – 6 Niagara 0 – 9 – 1 1 – 16 – 3 As of November 20, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA
2015 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer standings Conf Overall Team W L T W L T No. 7 Stanford ‡ 7 – 1 – 2 17 – 2 – 2 No. 25 UCLA + 5 – 4 – 1 11 – 9 – 1 Washington 4 – 3 – 3 8 – 5 – 6 California 4 – 4 – 2 9 – 6 – 2 Oregon State 3 – 6 – 1 8 – 9 – 1 San Diego State 2 – 7 – 1 8 – 8 – 3 As of December 5, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA
2015 Patriot League men's soccer standings Conf Overall Team W L T W L T Colgate 7 – 2 – 0 10 – 7 – 2 Boston U. + 6 – 1 – 2 12 – 6 – 2 American 5 – 2 – 2 14 – 5 – 3 Lehigh ‡ 4 – 3 – 2 13 – 6 – 3 Bucknell 3 – 3 – 3 7 – 7 – 5 Army 3 – 3 – 3 5 – 8 – 5 Navy 4 – 5 – 0 8 – 9 – 1 Holy Cross 3 – 4 – 2 6 – 8 – 4 Lafayette 2 – 6 – 1 5 – 8 – 5 Loyola (MD) 0 – 8 – 1 2 – 13 – 2 As of November 20, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA
2015 Southern Conference men's soccer standings Conf Overall Team W L T W L T UNC Greensboro 6 – 1 – 3 11 – 5 – 5 Furman ‡ 6 – 2 – 2 8 – 5 – 6 Mercer 5 – 3 – 2 11 – 6 – 3 East Tenn. State 4 – 4 – 2 8 – 7 – 4 Wofford 4 – 5 – 1 9 – 7 – 2 VMI 0 – 10 – 0 0 – 19 – 0 As of November 20, 2015 Rankings from NSCAA
In this list, a "major upset" is defined as a game won by a team ranked 10 or more spots lower or an unranked team that defeats a team ranked #15 or higher.
Last update on December 14, 2015.
GOALS AGAINST AVERAGE[ 29] Rank Keeper School Games Minutes GA GAA 1 Drew Shepherd Western Michigan 13 1101 4 .327 2 Tim Dobrowolski Loyola Chicago 19 1806 8 .399 3 Dan Jackson Denver 19 1794 8 .401 4 Jack Binks St. Francis Brooklyn 18 1769 8 .407 5 Kyle Dal Santo SIUE 18 1652 9 .490 6 Logan Keys LIU Brooklyn 14 1357 8 .530 7 Stefan Cleveland Dartmouth 15 1297 9 .625 8 Dallas Jaye Xavier 14 1289 9 .628 9 Ryan Herman Washington 18 1711 12 .631 10 Andrew Epstein Stanford 23 2138 15 .631
Last update on December 14, 2015.
Last update on December 14, 2015
SAVE PERCENTAGE[ 31] Rank Keeper School Games Saves GA Save % 1 Dominik Reining Marshall 11 59 7 .894 2 Drew Shepherd Western Michigan 13 29 4 .879 3 Ryan Herman Washington 18 85 12 .876 4 Logan Keys LIU Brooklyn 14 55 8 .873 5 Stefan Cleveland Dartmouth 15 58 9 .866 6 Jack Binks St. Francis Brooklyn 18 47 8 .855 7 Joseph Kuta Buffalo 11 58 10 .853 8 Alec Ferrell Wake Forest 18 66 12 .846 9 James Pyle North Carolina 15 47 9 .839 10 Dan Jackson Denver 19 40 8 .833 Kyle Dal Santo SIUE 18 45 9 .833
Last update on December 14, 2015
Last update on December 14, 2015
TOTAL SAVES[ 33] Rank Keeper School Games Saves 1 Alex Guerra VMI 19 127 2 Brenden Alfery Robert Morris 19 112 3 Jake Fenlason Akron 24 105 4 Patric Pray Hofstra 22 98 5 Zack Davis UNC Asheville 17 96 6 Eduardo Cortes IUPUI 17 95 7 Harrison Veith Central Arkansas 18 91 8 Michael Nelson SMU 22 90 9 Bobby Diaz St. Bonaventure 14 89 Kody Palmer High Point 21 89
Last update on December 14, 2015
SCORING OFFENSE[ 34] Rank School Games Goals Goals/Game 1 Dayton 23 58 2.522 2 Akron 24 56 2.333 3 Creighton 23 53 2.304 4 Georgia State 18 41 2.278 5 UCLA 21 47 2.338 6 Radford 20 44 2.200 7 UNC Greensboro 21 46 2.190 8 Wake Forest 22 48 2.182 9 Clemson 24 52 2.167 10 Seattle 23 49 2.130
Last update on December 14, 2015
SCORING DEFENSE (Team Goals Against Average)[ 35] Rank School Games Minutes GA Team GAA 1 Loyola Chicago 19 1833 8 .393 2 Denver 19 1794 8 .401 3 St. Francis Brooklyn 18 1785 8 .403 4 Western Michigan 19 1798 10 .501 5 Wake Forest 22 2029 13 .577 6 Stanford 23 2164 15 .624 7 Washington 19 1846 13 .634 8 SIUE 18 1697 12 .636 9 Kentucky 19 1783 13 .656 10 Coastal Carolina 20 1905 14 .661
Last update on December 14, 2015
SHUTOUT PERCENTAGE[ 36] Rank School Games Shutouts Shutout % 1 St. Francis Brooklyn 18 12 .667 2 Denver 19 12 .632 Loyola Chicago 19 12 .632 Western Michigan 19 12 .632 5 Dartmouth 19 11 .579 Washington 19 11 .579 7 SIUE 18 10 .556 8 American 22 12 .545 Cal State Fullerton 22 12 .545 Wake Forest 22 12 .545
Last update on December 14, 2015
All statistics are through the games of December 13, 2015 WON-LOST-TIED PERCENTAGE[ 37] Rank School Wins Loses Ties W-L-T % 1 Denver 15 1 3 .868 2 Stanford 18 2 3 .848 3 Georgetown 16 2 3 .833 4 Creighton 19 4 0 .826 5 North Carolina 15 2 3 .825 6 Wake Forest 17 3 2 .818 7 Akron 18 3 3 .813 8 Seattle 18 4 1 .804 9 Clemson 17 3 4 .792 10 SMU 15 3 4 .773
Last update on December 14, 2015
Team Home average UC Santa Barbara 3,844 UConn 3,504 Creighton 3,297 Maryland 3,203 Wake Forest 2,720 Louisville 2,663 Clemson 2,648 Cal Poly 2,488 South Carolina 2,245 Akron 2,186 Indiana 1,994 Saint Louis 1,915 UCLA 1,858 Virginia 1,810 New Mexico 1,691 Utah Valley 1,590 Portland 1,548 Penn St. 1,546 UMBC 1,543 Kentucky 1,489 Syracuse 1,316 North Carolina 1,174 Stanford 1,174 SIUE 1,157 Elon 1,155 Notre Dame 1,092 Virginia Tech 1,040 Grand Canyon 1,038 Boston U. 1,032 UNCG 1,030 Ohio St. 1,027 Georgetown 958 Michigan 951 Michigan St. 942 Air Force 941 Butler 932 Charlotte 924 Milwaukee 918 Binghamton 915 UNCW 901 Dartmouth 894 Furman 876 South Florida 871 Yale 862 UAB 856 Washington 816 St. John's (NY) 811 North Carolina St. 802 CSU Bakersfield 800 Cincinnati 793
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